We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"We can use both on-premises and cloud setups."
"The most valuable features are API development and API management."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to investigate APIs."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"The most effective features of Anypoint API Manager for policy enforcement include security enforcement, rate limiting, client enforcement, traffic control, service level agreement policies, and caching policies."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"Anypoint API Manager's most valuable feature is its connectors."
"What is most valuable for me is that we can create and share collections between the team members."
"It is stable and does not lag."
"The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated."
"I have enjoyed using parameters and setting parameters while powering directly."
"The product is easy to implement."
"In Postman, we have an option to directly import a call, make it a Postman collection, and execute it in a batch. This feature is very useful. It saves a lot of time. The manual effort is also reduced when we can just pick it in a Postman collection and then run and execute it to get the results."
"Postman lets you create, manage, and validate a suite of tests. It has several features to help you organize your test suite. You can also automate stuff with a lot of validations and assertions. Postman supports GraphQL, and you can do various kinds of calls."
"The API testing features are valuable."
"The dashboards in Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve."
"They should provide training and development programs to enable the skills and capabilities of users."
"The API gateway and API runtime are too heavy, which means that it is not suitable for microservices."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"They should develop on MuleSoft as it would be a good way of improving API monetization."
"To improve Anypoint API Manager for the next release, it should focus on better consumption scalability, especially for smaller APIs."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"I would like to have a code snippet where I can write a code and for the responses of the endpoints to be validated using my custom business conditions."
"The pricing should be adjusted for the Pro plan."
"Postman does not have a check-in balance. Essentially what I mean by that is if there is something that is already configured on a particular device, it just overrides it without checking whether you really want to override it or not."
"I would like that if you click on one of the fields you should be able to see the entire row of fields, names, and values."
"They should integrate the solution with one of the CRM solutions."
"Integration should be improved with our continuation system because we use Azure DevOps separately."
"Integration of the solution towards Bitbucket, BitHub, and CI pipelines is difficult."
"I would like to see more integrations with other platforms."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews while Postman is ranked 9th in API Management with 52 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and Runscope. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. Postman report.
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